There’s a fabulous article today on BLDGBLOG, about roof-top farming in London[2]. Being both an avid green-roof fan[3], and a former London resident myself (and remembering those miserable grey days) – I can’t think of anything more exciting that the possibility of transforming the grizzly bombed out concrete blocks of my old Hackney stomping grounds into lush, green, food-producing gardens.

London-based architecture firm Agents of Change (AOC[4]), proposes that “vacancy in cities” is really “a starting point for a new urban form.” The AOC asks, how could London be adapted “to an agricultural logic, the logic of rotation, seasons, ground and growth?”